Azerbaijani police make more arrests in crackdown on AbzasMedia
Azerbaijani police have detained the editor-in-chief of AbzasMedia along with another person who has worked with the outlet as part of an ongoing crackdown on the outlet. Editor-in-chief Sevinj...
View ArticleAbzasMedia deputy director charged in ongoing crackdown
AbzasMedia’s deputy director has been remanded into pre-trial detention on charges of smuggling money, as police continue to interrogate the organisation’s journalists. On Thursday, the Khatai District...
View ArticleEditorial | Ilham Aliyev’s attempt to eradicate the free press cannot succeed
After previous rounds of raids, arrests, and repressions, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev is once again moving to eradicate the last vestiges of the country’s free press. But despite his apparent...
View ArticleAzerbaijan arrests founder of Kanal 13 a week after AbzasMedia raid
Azerbaijani police have arrested the founder and director of the independent online TV channel Kanal 13, a week after the authorities raided the offices of AbzasMedia and arrested its management. Aziz...
View ArticleBaku accuses West of interfering in its affairs by funding AbzasMedia
Azerbaijan has accused the US, France, and Germany of interfering in the country’s internal affairs by funding AbzasMedia, an independent news outlet raided by the police last week. On Tuesday, the...
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Azerbaijan detains fourth AbzasMedia employee in ongoing crackdown
Azerbaijani police have detained a fourth AbzasMedia employee in the ongoing crackdown on the outlet, after raiding their offices and arresting members of their management last week. On Friday,...
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Podcast | Azerbaijan cracks down on the media
Last week, Azerbaijani authorities raided the offices of AbzasMedia, an independent news outlet covering corruption in the country. They arrested four of its employees, including its director, Ulvi...
View ArticleKanal 13 anchor imprisoned by Baku court for ‘disobeying police’
An anchor at the independent online Azerbaijani TV channel, Kanal 13, has been sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest, a week after the channel’s founder was arrested. Rufat Muradli was...
View ArticleAzerbaijan detains director of third media outlet
Azerbaijani police have detained the founder and director of Kanal 11, the third independent media outlet to be targetted in the past month. Teymur Karimov was remanded to four months of pre-trial...
View ArticleAzerbaijan detains seventh journalist in ongoing media crackdown
Azerbaijani police have detained an Azerbaijani journalist associated with AbzasMedia amidst an ongoing crackdown on journalists in Azerbaijan. Hafiz Babali, a freelance journalist who has worked with...
View ArticleFamilies of imprisoned AbzasMedia journalists face account freezes and...
Azerbaijani authorities have been accused of pressuring the families of relatives of the imprisoned members of staff of AbzasMedia by keeping their bank accounts frozen, cutting access to state...
View ArticleAzerbaijan detains 10th media worker ahead of elections
Azerbaijani police have detained journalist Shahin Rzayev near his home in Baku, making him the 10th media worker to be detained in the country since late November. Rzayev was sentenced to 15 days of...
View ArticleAbzasMedia to continue from exile despite imprisonment of management team
The embattled Azerbaijani news site AbzasMedia will continue to operate from exile, despite its entire management team and several journalists having been imprisoned by Azerbaijan’s authorities. On...
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Police raid office of Azerbaijan’s Toplum TV
Azerbaijani police have raided the offices of the online television station Toplum TV. Journalist Gulzar Mammadli reported on Wednesday afternoon that police had surrounded the building and that two of...
View ArticleAzerbaijan charges journalists and activists following Toplum TV raid
Three journalists and four pro-democracy activists remain in detention in Azerbaijan following a raid on independent media outlet Toplum TV and a political organisation on Wednesday. On Wednesday,...
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Georgian Government to bring back aborted foreign agent law
The ruling Georgian Dream party has announced they will again attempt to pass a controversial ‘foreign agent law’ targetting civil society organisations and the media after the previous attempt last...
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Georgian president accuses government of ‘sabotaging’ EU bid in scathing...
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has accused the government of deliberately sabotaging the country’s EU membership bid, after the ruling Georgian Dream party reintroduced its aborted ‘foreign...
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Georgia’s foreign agents bill ‘raises serious concerns’ in EU
Georgia’s reintroduction of its foreign agent law has received a backlash internationally, with many warning it could torpedo the country’s potential EU membership. The ruling Georgian Dream party...
View ArticleWhy is Georgian Dream reviving the foreign agent law?
Georgia’s ruling party has promised to pass a controversial ‘foreign agents’ law a year after it was withdrawn following mass street protests. Coming just six months before parliamentary elections, why...
View ArticleArmenian civil society groups issue statement of solidarity with Georgian...
A group of leading Armenian civil society organisations have released a statement expressing ‘strong solidarity’ with their Georgian counterparts, after Georgia’s authorities revived a controversial...
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